The Yip Harburg Songbook

The Yip Harburg Songbook. A new edition published by Hal Leonard, 2009. Piano/vocal sheets to 34 songs including “Over the Rainbow,” “It’s Only a Paper Moon,” “April in Paris,” “Lydia, the Tattooed Lady,” “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” “Old Devil Moon,” and an illustrated introductory essay by Stephen Holden.

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You will never find my songs among the most plugged except in one or two instances such as “[Over the] Rainbow” and so forth. The reason being that I am not interested primarily in writing popular songs. I like to write what seem to me good songs and if by chance they become popular that is just so much velvet.

Yip Harburg, letter to Paul Strickland, Oct. 24, 1944

Mr. Strickland was a fan of popular music who kept track of song plugs on the radio and sent his findings to the tunesmiths of the day.

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